I enjoyed a conversation with a health care professional today who is in her mid twenties, my guess. I was telling her about my recent revi...
Odds and Ends
Another week has ended..for me time flies, for others it drags... I understand this. I have a few scraps of paper here with jotted down not...
Samples that Shouldn't Be
My post for this Saturday evening or Sunday morning will be brief. I am disillusioned once again, though I should not be because I KNOW, t...
the Benefits of Blood Flow
This week my research took place in doctor's and physical therapist's offices. I spoke with an orthopedic specialist and separately ...
Unnecessary Radiation
Just quickly browsing the paper this morning, I noted three persons of some notoriety that had died of cancer. The World Health Organizatio...
Diet Drugs
How well do you know your blog writer? Here is a test question. Does Deirdre believe in diet drugs? Answer. NO It has been a little while si...
Odds and Ends
My final thoughts for the week: Fiber: Interestingly, I learned one thing new about the positive effects of fiber in the diet. I have long ...
DO Be Defensive
Our bodies were meant to be lean mean fighting machines. I thought of that today as I read an article regarding some research into the micr...
H1N1 and you
I spent the better part of the day pondering what my post should be about today. At the last minute I decided to briefly discuss the H1N1 fl...
But is it a BETTER longer life
We have gained two tenths of a point in our life expectancy rate. That is supposed to be very significant. Our main causes of death are he...
the Tobacco Plant as Hero
Before the market collapsed and the economy sank state and local budgets, I was in support of increasing tobacco taxes and imposing public s...
Stroke Risks and Signs
Today I read the synopsis of a study that was conducted in Ireland. Interestingly, the headline and the first line of the story generalize ...
TV Chefs Gain Weight
Over the weekend, my cousin and mother were talking about Julia Childs and then TV chef’s in general. My older cousin said that the chef’s t...
A Pill is All I Need
Today I am posting a paper that I wrote in grad school not too long ago. I came across it as I was trying to clean out some of my word docum...
Preventing a Devastating Disease
Research continues to build in support of the positive effects of a diet that is very low in red meat and high in plant based foods includin...
FDA in doubt?
There appears to be some controversy at the FDA these days and it is disheartening to hear allegations of misconduct in the agency that is s...
Misguided Empathy or Empathy Gone Wild
A friend and reader of this blog sent me a video link to a news story that she thought would get a reaction out of me. As she has known me a...
A message from the ACSM
As a member of the ACSM I have been asked to share this information with you and to encourage you to pass it on to others . Message Points...
Cancer Mortality - reduction
Today I reviewed a study that in some ways can be considered a gold standard. The positives of the study include that the sample size was la...
Health and Taxes
I continue to have work crunch issues and will keep the post brief today/tonight. In regards to health reform, someone wrote in to the Wall ...
Odds and Ends
Ah, another week has passed and a few items should be noted, saving the best for last, let me begin: Compressed Morbidity : I thought of thi...
Label Tricks
I become increasingly frustrated with producers of supplements and meal replacements as well as producers or manufacturers in general as the...
Role Models
During my travels this week, I was able to use a fitness facility associated with my hotel , but also with the community. One morning I wa...
Fructose Continued
Continuing with information on fructose from a lecture presented by Richard Johnson, MD Dr. Johnson suggests that fructose is more of a prob...
the Perils of Fructose
My goal today is to list some of the main points from two lectures I attended today. The speaker was an MD researcher who has linked, thro...
vigorous physical activity
Hello, the travel today was not fun and I am cranky... drove over to the market and bought myself a healthy salad and vegetarian lunch meat....
Referring Out
Hello... I had to work this evening and did not have any down time to write earlier.. so I am referring you to someone else's blog note...
Odds and Ends
Birds of Prey? I was eating lunch at the beach Saturday and though I have seen this before, I was still stunned when the sea birds began sw...
Graze Ways
This post should be relatively short and simple with no scientific study or google searching required. I want to make a statement about &quo...